Key Themes
a continuous, systematic narrative of past events as relating to a particular people, country, period, person, etc.
What is history?
3 Landforms of Africa
What are mountains, valleys, plains, and plateaus?
Imports and Exports
What are goods which are brought into a country and goods which are shipped out of a country, respectively?
Ancient villages which settled on the Nile River and grew into one of the greatest river-valley civilizations in human history
What is the Egyptian Civilization?
Kingdom from 1240-1500 CE whose name means "where the king lives." Their most famous king was Mansa Musa.
What is the Kingdom of Mali?
the state or fact of being of a different kind, form, character
What is diversity?
3 Climates of Africa
What are arid, tropical, desert, polar, and mild?
Items that were traded along the Swahili Coast, at least 3 of them.
What are cotton, ivory, silk, gold, animal skins, and porcelain?
People group in modern day Sudan known for their thriving Kingdom "Meroe."
Who were the Nubian civilization?
One of the largest empires in western Sudan during the 1100s-1500s CE. Some of its significant leaders were Sonni Ali Ber and Askia Muhammad.
What is the Kingdom of Songhai?
the act of extending to other or all parts of the globe
What is globalization?
3 Vegetations Grown in Africa
What are palm trees, deciduous trees, desert plants, and grasslands?
North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and Antarctica
What are the continents of the world?
Great city in the 9th century BCE on the north coast of Africa in modern day Tunisia who's architecture links it to the Mediterranean world. It was destroyed by Romans around the 2nd century BCE.
What is Carthage?
City from 1100s to 1400s CE known for its stone walls and economy of cattle husbandry, crop cultivation, and gold trade on the Indian Ocean. It's ruins were debated in the 20th century to be European in origin, but revealed to be African.
What is Great Zimbabwe?
Date suffix referring to years after the adoption of the Gregorian calender
What is Common Era (C.E.)?
3 Religions in Africa
What are Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Indigenous Religions?
Civilization in modern day Ethiopia who's main city had a trade network that stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to India and became the center of early Ethiopian Coptic Christian Church.
Who are the Aksumites?
Groups of people from West-Central Africa who shared a language group that brought farming, herding, and iron tools with them to regions of Eastern and Southern Africa.
What were the Bantu Migrations?
Reasons for developing trade routes between West and North Africa
What is a lack of salt, but plenty of gold in West Africa and a lack of gold, but plenty of salt in North Africa?
Date suffix referring to years before the adoption of the Gregorian calendar
What is Before Common Era (B.C.E.)?
3 Types of Transportation in Africa
What are walking, camels, bicycles, and motor vehicles?
A piece of evidence which proves, a piece of evidence which disproves, and a piece of evidence which could support or debunk the statement "The Ark of the Covenant resides in the city of Aksum in Ethiopia."
Located in modern day Nigeria, this is one of the most well known West African Stone Age Cultures with clay figurines of animals, human beings, iron tools, stone tools and ornaments.
What is Nok Culture?
Ancient site discovered in 1933 in Algeria with rock-paintings and engravings depicting the Sahara as a thriving savannah
What is Tassili-N-Ajjer?